Community.
Sandon Point Children’s Centre has built strong relationships with TAFE and a number of universities to provide their students with a placement to gain a practical understanding of early childhood education. By hosting these students, we are helping to develop the educators of tomorrow.
Our centre also works in partnership with local small businesses and community groups to promote children’s health and safety. Some of those groups include:
McKeon’s Swim School who attends our centre annually to talk to the children about water safety.
Soccerjoeys spends six weeks each year teaching our pre-school age children foundation movement skills.
Bulli Surf Life Saving Club teaches us about water safety at the beach.
Wollongong Police officers visit the service to help us educate the children about road safety and how to access the emergency services.
Bulli Fire Brigade kindly bring their big red fire truck to our centre and speak to us about fire safety and teach us how to “Stop, drop and roll”.
The Statewide Eyesight Preschooler Screening (StEPS) program tests our pre-schooler’s vision on an annual basis.
Healthy Harold from the Life Education Program always provides us with an entertaining and interactive show about having a healthy diet and the importance of exercise.
During the year we organise a variety of performers and educational shows to visit the centre and complement our program, ie Kaleidoscope Science, Matilda’s Farmyard, Bob Turner Wildlife Show, Taronga Zoomobile, Peter Morgan’s music show, Hatch ‘n Grow, Greg Dymock from Swag Full of Instruments, Mama Africa Drumming Workshop, to name a few.
